Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-27
RnITORIAL NOTES.

The next installment of Messrs. Nicolay
and Hays sFLife of Lincoln" will, it is ex-
pected by the Providence journal, bring it
down to the settlement of America by the
Norsemen.
Jacob Sharp, who has been for six months
under twenty-one indictments for bribing
members of the New York board of alder
men, is, it seems, really to be tried. His
trial will be an impressive spectacle.
The treasury vaults at Washington are
crowded with the coined gold and silver
which the mints are constantly turning out,
there being two hundred tons of the latter
and about fifty of the former stored there.
There are many of the Inhabitants of this
country who would like to relieve the trea-
sury of some of this burden.
When the JOURNAL AND COURIER charac-
terized Walking Delegate Glidden as ''the
walking sneak it was not far out of the way.
His career in this city has ended as it might
have been expected to end. He did not care
to work, and was willing to be hired to go
about trying to injure people who did want
to work. Of course such a man was without
character, as has been abundantly proven.
Organized labor in New Haven has no cause
to feel proud of this conspicuous champion
Of its cause, and the respectable business
men who so far forgot themselves and their
duty to society as to obey his commands
have reason to hang their heads in shame.
It is popular belief, which has been sup
ported by pictures in the old Biographies,
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and devour enormous quantities of blubber.
At Point Barrow Mr.. John Mendach found
that food was habitually cooked, although
certain articles, like the "black skim of the
whale, were usually eaten raw. Taking into
account the fact that the Esquimaux have no
butter. cream, fat, bacon, olive oil or lard,
he doubts whether much more fat is con-
sumed by them than by civilized peoples.
At Point Barrow the fat OF birds and the
reindeer was freely partaken of, but compar-
atively little actual blubber either of the seal
or whale was eaten. "Seal or whale blubber
was too valuable-for burning in the lamps,
oiling leather and many other purposes, es-
pecially for trade
Rome has better supply of water than
any of the European capitals. She has 204,-
600, 900 litres of pure water-a litre being a
tri1e more than one and three-fourth pints-
every twenty four hours, and as her popula-
1atiea is 345, ,036, every inhabitant can thus
dispose of nearly 600litres per day. London
comes next, for every one of whose popula-
ton of rising 100000 there are 300 litres
daily. Paris takes the third place, her pop
ulation amounting to 2,240, 124, and each
inhabitant having for alimentary purposes SO
litres per day, and for secondary uses 1859,
or total of 227. Berlin has 1902, 1888 in
habitants, for each of whom there are 140
litres daily; Vienna, 770,172 Inhabitants,
with 100 litres each day; Naples, 463, ,172,
with 200 litres, and Turin, 278, ,59S, with 80
litres head every twenty-four hours.
German papers call to mind that Kaiser
Wilhelm in his ninety years has survived no
fewer than seventy-two reigning soyereigns
who were his contemporaries, viz: ffty-two
kings or queens, eight emperors, six sultans
and six popes. OF these three were kings of
Prussia, Frederick William H., Frederick
| William I'LL, Frederick William w.. two
were kings of Hanover, two kings of Wur-
temburg, four kings of Bavaria, three kings
of Saxony, one king of Westphalia (Jerome
Bonaparte), one king of Greece, one king of
the Belgians, three kings of Holland, three
kings of England, three kings of France,
We kings of Sweden, four kings of Dem